Neil
Alden Armstrong
August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012.
August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012.
All the night's participants had been having life struggles with work and sleep and study and not getting enough of one or too much of the other and the general lassitude and wear that has accrued like a ships barnacles around your bow a few weeks into your journey through the winter...
2 comments:
Nice post. If he'd ejected half a second later his chute would not have opened. His parachute almost descended through the smoke plume.
But the even greater escape he had was Gemini 8, and his reaction to the crisis probably went a long way to qualifying him for the Apollo program.
After a historic first-ever rendezvous and docking with an unmanned vehicle, the two craft began rotating. Gemini 8 undocked but the rolling only increased until it spun up to once per second. Armstrong got it back under control. NASA lore has it his heartbeat barely fluctuated off its baseline the whole time. Cool as a cucumber in ice.
NASA had just found their man.
(nice falconry art too, by the way. You've done more than I have all year.)
Shine on you crazy diamond.
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